Asset-Based Community Development and Social Currencies: Strategies for Sustainability

Monday, May 19, 2025
09:30 AM - 01:30 PM
East St. Louis City Hall
301 River Park Dr.
East St. Louis , IL 62201

Award-winning TEDx speaker De’Amon Harges is a highly sought-after speaker and trainer for the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute of DePaul University. He became nationally and internationally recognized after his ten-minute TEDx Indianapolis speech about his experience as “The Roving Listener.”

Participants will discover and explore asset-based community development, social banking, the five community currencies, and their function. Participants will learn strategies for implementing asset-based community development and social banking and practice using the five community currencies